Anet Dunne consulting with Patrick Schwerdtfeger, author of “Marketing Shortcuts for the Self-Employed” and noted speaker on using social media for effective marketing.

The amount of time spent on the Web is being increasingly gobbled up by Facebook which has become brilliant at keeping people on the site by embedding videos and links. And it’s no longer personal! Corporations are using in-house social networking as a tool for project management.

Today, Google notified American-Storage.com that they would be charged for clicks to “Directions” as well as clicks on the AdWords headline which goes to the website. Will this affect your business the same way?

Google Tags, the yellow icons highlighted at left, ends April 29. Google is replacing the $25/month flat fee Tag advertising with Boost, an easy way for local advertisers to get started with Google AdWords advertising. Click [more] to read the whole article.

Amy Gottesman, owner of Smash Party Entertainment, was having little luck with local newspaper advertising and mailing coupons. Then she tried Google AdWords and really brought in the business. David Freeman of the NYTimes profiled Amy in the Small Business Blog “You’re The Boss.” Her home-based business, Smash Party Entertainment, does not offer party planning [...]

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Stop wasting your advertising dollars on the Yellow Pages. Cut down the size of your Yellow Pages ad and use the money you save to start Google advertising. All you need is an effective website, a credit card and the new Google Advertising Class on Saturday, Sept. 25 at Santa Rosa Junior College.

Emergency housing for relief crews was found promptly by service agencies searching Google for portable steel buildings strong enough for earthquake recovery. Google advertising connected Global Portable Buildings to relief services including ProsthetiKa, a Santa Rosa based nonprofit that makes prosthetic legs for amputees.

Westec Tank opened its doors in 2005, built a website and started advertising stainless wine tanks on Google. Today they are one California’s top custom stainless tank fabricators and have increased their market share at the expense of more established but less innovative companies.

Artistic Wine Cellars spent thousands on the Yellow Pages, with poor results. They were featured on TV, magazines, newspapers and designer books, but it was hard to find them on the web. Find out how aNetGain.com pushed them to the top of the search engine results and got more bang for their buck.